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Will Smith’s slap sparks debate on defense of Black women

March 30, 2022 - 08:47 PM By AARON MORRISON (AP) — It started with a Black man slapping another Black man on live television at the globally televised Oscars, presumably in defense of a Black woman who was being ridiculed over her hairstyle. But to many Black people, it was about more than a slap or an insult. It...

Oprah Winfrey to receive honorary PEN/Faulkner award

March 29, 2022 - 02:25 PM NEW YORK (AP) — For her championing of so many authors over the past quarter century, Oprah Winfrey is herself receiving a literary honor. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is giving Winfrey its inaugural Literary Champion award, a lifetime achievement prize for contributions to literacy and for in...

101-year-old man finally earns high school diploma

March 29, 2022 - 10:35 AM Nationwide — Merrill Pittman Cooper, an African American man from Jefferson County, West Virginia, has earned his high school diploma at 101-years old, finally making his lifelong dream come true. From 1934 to 1938, Cooper was a student at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, ...

Will Smith strikes Chris Rock during the Oscars

March 27, 2022 - 10:05 PM (BAMM Network) - While on stage during the Oscars telecast, comedian Chris Rock made a joke about actress Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, which did not appear to go over well with her husband and actor Will Smith. While presenting the award for best documentary, Rock joked, "Jada I love you, 'G...

iHeartMedia radio station refuses to play Black ads on-air

March 25, 2022 - 05:35 PM Nationwide — The largest media company in the nation is in hot water after Aaron Trimmer, the Program Director at KFYI 550 AM News Talk, a commercial radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to serve the greater Phoenix Arizona area, blatantly refused to run ads on-air promoting a ...

New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz

March 25, 2022 - 11:55 AM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With its president saying it had racist origins, the New Orleans school board has unanimously reversed a little known but century-old ban on jazz in schools in a city which played a huge role in developing jazz and where it is still played nightly at various venues...

Senate committee wraps up hearings on Jackson’s nomination

March 24, 2022 - 12:05 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Legal experts praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her final day of Senate hearings on Thursday, with a top lawyers’ group saying its review found she has a “sterling” reputation, “exceptional” competence and is well qualified to sit on the Sup...

From Prison to Purpose: His truth after a risqué teen case in Georgia

March 23, 2022 - 06:35 PM Nationwide — Back in 2005, Genarlow Wilson was a 17-year old high school football and track star, homecoming king, and B student enjoying his senior year in Douglasville, Georgia, until a wild night of underage partying and teen sex turned his dream life into a legal nightmare. He never ...

White professor/ psychiatrist condemned for calling dark-skinned model “A Freak of Nature”

March 21, 2022 - 01:35 PM Nationwide — Rev. Frederick Shaw, founder of CCHR’s Task Force Against Racism and Modern-Day Eugenics and President of the NAACP Inglewood/South Bay Branch, has called for stronger actions to be taken in response to racism in the mental health system. This follows a r...

Meet the first Black male to become Dean of Students at Harvard Law School

March 17, 2022 - 05:55 PM Nationwide — Stephen L. Ball, who is from Detroit, has been chosen to be Harvard Law School’s Dean of Students, making history as the first Black male to hold the position in the institution’s 205-year history. According to reports, Ball is the first Black man to serve in the...

Briefs

Will Smith’s slap sparks debate on defense of Black women

Oprah Winfrey to receive honorary PEN/Faulkner award

101-year-old man finally earns high school diploma

Will Smith strikes Chris Rock during the Oscars

iHeartMedia radio station refuses to play Black ads on-air

New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz

Senate committee wraps up hearings on Jackson’s nomination

From Prison to Purpose: His truth after a risqué teen case in Georgia

White professor/ psychiatrist condemned for calling dark-skinned model “A Freak of Nature”

Meet the first Black male to become Dean of Students at Harvard Law School

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